Taxi driver charged with assaulting passenger

A taxi driver from Halifax faces assault charges after one of his passengers was struck in the head.

Halifax Regional Police responded to a call from the 300 block of Langbrae Drive in Halifax at about 1:15 a.m. Friday.

Police say the driver, a 45-year-old Halifax man, and his male passenger had gotten into an argument during the drive. The driver pulled out "a pipe-like object" and struck the man in the head, police said in a news release.

The man was taken to the Queen Elizabeth 2 hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The other passenger, the man's girlfriend, was uninjured.

The taxi driver was arrested at the scene and charged with assault with a weapon and assault causing bodily harm.